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Education and Literacy
Analyzes Race to the Top-funded states' plans to help improve teacher quality by adopting stricter accountability mechanisms for teacher education programs and expanding effective programs. Outlines challenges and policy suggestions for maximizing impact.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy
Examines the growth of charter school management organizations, characteristics of students served, and use of resources; CMO practices; impact on students, including middle school test scores; and structures and practices linked to positive outcomes.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy
Examines policy, information, and cultural barriers that minimize the "demand pull" for educational innovation. Calls for encouraging early adopters, bolstering smart adoption, providing better information, and rewarding productivity improvements.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy
Examines whether classroom-based formative writing assessment - designed to provide students with feedback and modified instruction as needed - improves student writing and how teachers can improve such assessment. Suggests best practices.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy, International Development
Outlines priorities and strategies for realizing education for all in development and poverty alleviation efforts: ensure early childhood education, literacy and numeracy in the lower grades, and postprimary opportunities. Makes policy recommendations.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: Global
Children and Youth, Education and Literacy
Examines issues for implementing standardized observation protocols for teacher evaluations. Makes recommendations based on lessons from preschool, such as the need to show empirical links between teacher performance and student learning and development.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States
Education and Literacy
Analyzes how teacher and school characteristics - including demographics, quality and qualification, specialty, school type (public, magnet, charter) and size, academic climate, and teacher-student racial match - influence teacher turnover.
August 1970
Geographic Focus:
Athletics and Sports, Education and Literacy, Health
Based on 2007 California Health Interview Survey data, examines participation in physical education and other physical activity among adolescents ages 12 to 17 by gender and county, and implications for health outcomes. Makes policy recommendations.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California
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